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Vatican convenes 300 pastors from around the world in preparation for synod on synodality 2024

The international meeting for a representation of parish priests is titled «Parish Priests for the Synod: An International Encounter» and aims to listen to and appreciate the synodal experience that parish priests are undergoing in their respective local Churches. It provides them with the opportunity to experience the dynamism of synodal work at the universal level.

Vatican Hospital Takes In Children of Gaza Wounded by the War

This humanitarian project in favour of the children of Gaza was an initiative of the Vicariate of the Custody of the Holy Land and the Governments of Italy and Egypt, in agreement with the Israeli Authorities. The intention is to take immediately some one hundred seriously wounded children to Italy and the Vatican to palliate the harm they have suffered from the bombings and battles in Gaza, medical care that is practically impossible in the Palestinian Strip.

One thousand experts to Rome to address integral, communitarian and missionary formation of priests at the Vatican

The International Conference for the Ongoing Formation of Priests «Rekindle the gift of God that is in you» (2Tm 1:6), organized by the Dicastery for the Clergy, in collaboration with the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches and the Dicastery for the Oriental Churches, will begin on Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at the Vatican.